Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Right now I wish I were invisible. I am so frustrated with my youngests - when they play, they get out tonnnns of stuff and then they PROMISE they will clean it up. Promising usually means mom has to ride them for 45 minutes while they whine and complain that "someone ELSE needs to put that away"!!! Tonight they decided to take my clothes off hangers and model them. And, you guessed it, when they were done there were clothes all over the floor and only minimal amounts had been hung back up.

I saw red.

Thankfully my dear husband came home just then. I gave him the lowdown and he went in to handle it. It won't be perfect but that's more than fine. I just need to not deal with it tonight. I slipped out on to the screen porch to write this and I am really hoping, at least for a while, to be completely invisible...

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

This is the first summer our family has purchased a pool pass. Things like this are actually very beneficial for a family our size. The "family pool pass" price is the same whether you have 1 child or are the Duggers. Since we're somewhere in the middle, we benefit from it as well. So yeah, we bought one.

Small(ish) problem though. I don't like going to the pool. AT.ALL. I mean, nope. I think part of it is that when I go to put my swim suit on I basically have to wrestle myself into it as if I am wrangling a crocodile. By the time I get it on, yell at Avery to come help me pull it up in the back, and then finishing tucking all the extra body parts in (you know, the ones you grow after having kids? those ones) I am basically tired. Exhausted. Like all my patience was used up on NOT saying every swear word possible in front of my small tribe.

And then. Sunscreen. Ohmyword the sunscreen. I just...can't. It takes forever and someone is getting it in their eyes and someone else doesn't want Avery to put it on them (MOM ONLY!!! HOLLA!!!!) and since I have sensory issues with stuff on my hands I have to wash my hands between every person because I cannot ABIDE grabbing a clean bottle of sunscreen with messy hands. (Yes, I am also the kind of person who washes my hands after putting lotion on my legs.)

And THEN! No one seems to be able to find a dang thing when we're getting out the door. And apparently mom, who has NEVER ONCE been able to fit into your flip flops, should know where everything is.

The pool itself generally goes okay. We meet someone there who helps me keep track of Caden which takes a big load off my mind. I can't do the pool alone with all 5. But yeah - they want to leave at different times and the twins' muscles sometimes freeze up because of the cold water so then they need to be carried and are crying and in pain. We often look like a HUGE mess of people.

I really do NOT want to get into how frustrated I feel when they all come in and can't seem to remember how to hang a wet swim suit over a drying rack or which one the washing machine is (um, the one that WASHES the clothes??)...if I got into that you might actually make me type a few swear words.

But yeah, we have a pool pass. YAY! Or, not yay. Depending on how you look at it.

Monday, June 27, 2016

I love my husband. Truly and honestly. He is the one person in the entire world that I am 100% myself with. I trust him, I love him, and I love spending time with him. Today we celebrate 18 years of marriage. They haven't all been wonderful years, but they are all worth celebrating. In this society of throw-away everything, I am thankful that we have worked hard, stayed the course, and are continuing to find reasons to celebrate our marriage.

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...age 38, married to my high school sweetheart James since June of 98 with our five beautiful children: Caden (13, Rubinstein Taybi Syndrome/RTS), Avery (11), Declan (8) and identical twins Macey and Madelyn (7, Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy type 2i). I am a workmytailoffalldayathome mommy who loves the internet for my multiple work breaks each day.